01947cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022791 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 20.00 USD 9781513577005 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Republic of Belarus : Technical Assistance Report-Asset Classification and Nonperforming Loan Regulation. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (87 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The NBRB revised in 2018 its regulation on asset classification and provisioning (the Regulation). One of the main changes was the introduction of a new definition for NPLs based on the current framework of risk groups (RGs). This definition substitutes the previous term "problem assets." One of the intentions of the replacement is to promote international comparability by using it as a financial soundness indicator (FSI). The reported levels of this new NPLs indicator are, however, relatively low and, more important, much lower than the previous indicator, based on problem assets. The new NPL indicator levels are relatively stable, around 4 percent. The previous indicator was also stable, but the levels were more than three times higher, about 13 percent. Mode of access: Internet Monetary Policy imf IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2021/078 Full text available on IMF https://elibrary.imf.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1934-7685&volume=2021&issue=078 IMF e-Library